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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
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EMILY DICKINSON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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I am not commanding you, but I ...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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KELLY JONES Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cov...
RONALD KNOX Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
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SOJOURNER TRUTH When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it ...
EDMUND WHITE The soul that feeds on books alone --/ I count that soul exceeding small / That lives alone by book ...
JOAQUIN MILLER The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to...
WILLIAM FEATHER When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER The same sermon can be preached to the same audience, many times over, in the same manner, and the H...
PR. PADDICK VAN ZYL Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
CHINESE PROVERB Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
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LEWIS N. ROE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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“Ri...
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JONATHAN STROUD I'm NOT short. I prefer to think there is simply more space above my head for word balloons full of ...
R. STEVENS Clarke, define resplendent. I think it’s shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give ...
FRANK MCCOURT I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.
DON DELILLO Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
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MAYER HAWTHORNE I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.
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GARY F EVANS... I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.
WENDY MASS There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave, His soul goes marching on.
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A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
CASSANDRA CLARE I learned there were lots of realities in the world.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
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MARIANA FULGER A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they sp...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a mu...
MAYER HAWTHORNE This was insane!

Yes, he was hot, but so was Nick. Yes, he was nice, but so was Nick. Yes...
RACHEL HAWTHORNE A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive ass...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy....
MAYER HAWTHORNE Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy....
MAYER HAWTHORNE Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal...
MAYER HAWTHORNE you mourn, you hurt and you start to heal.
RACHEL HAWTHORNE James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense -...
MAYER HAWTHORNE My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try ...
MAYER HAWTHORNE The results were fantastic? they weren't expected to be so high.
ALAN HAWTHORNE I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger...
MAYER HAWTHORNE We have a contract in place with a developer. We're not at the point where we can name the developer...
ALAN HAWTHORNE We're very excited about it. There is a need for this kind of housing in the community. They will be...
ALAN HAWTHORNE Do you really expect the world of man to believe that innocent people had to die so you could make y...
ALICE HAWTHORNE You are a very small man, and like other men (of small stature), you have a Napoleonic complex and a...
ALICE HAWTHORNE Every anniversary has been filled with anger, weeping and sorrow, but this anniversary brings to an ...
ALICE HAWTHORNE My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the m...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul inf...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people ...
MAYER HAWTHORNE People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing May...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, som...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual event...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE Since childhood, I had always been affected by the changes of the moon, sometimes very much so. As t...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come ...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")
JULIAN HAWTHORNE States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of ima...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the ...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE ...the natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk im...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE The trouble with competitors' sycophants is they don't know where to put their tongues. Here's a sug...
MAX HAWTHORNE ...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach
MARK HAWTHORNE It allowed public-land managers to prohibit anything at all if it might harm some resource.
BRIAN HAWTHORNE It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self.
MAX HAWTHORNE I've been through a lot of situations with women and if I can help someone else avoid the pitfal...
MAYER HAWTHORNE They have accepted everything we've asked them to do and are playing a high level of volleyball.
EMILY HAWTHORNE At this point, she's our most improved player. She is still building confidence. Since she is about ...
EMILY HAWTHORNE Those two have pushed themselves and pushed the team to play at a higher level.
EMILY HAWTHORNE I think most of it comes from each person knowing their role on the team.
EMILY HAWTHORNE